The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-02-04
WHAT HAPPENED TO HILDA.
Sweet and Pathetic Narrative Told nv
the German Policeman

An admiTer of the German policeman
took q singular liberty with him the other
day. Knowing that the Hght-hearted
philosopher in dislocated Dutch was to
attend certain social gathering this
friend made wager that the policeman
could make the ladies both laugh and cry
inside Of two minutes. The wager was
accepted, though, of course the police
man knew nothing Of it, and at the party
the young man won the money by getting
the officer to tell n story which that
worthy usually reserves for his friends.
Fot, said the policeman; ''you wont
to know apOwd vot habbened to my
daughter Hilda? Oh, dots a sad story
w should We cry When We can choost as
veil laugh2
Oh, What heaps uf fun got nit Hilda.
We we're like a gubble uf baymatcs to-
gedteT. l remember vOp dime / vOs in
der sdroet, und she voS Titing bic-a-back
on my shoulders. Some beepIes shtared
at me as much to say, Dots a pretty
sdate uf dings.' 1 only laughed. You
peen lucky ielIers, / sayt, to get beep
at my Hita-dOt'S bc,hlcr as grOmO.'
Il used TO dake dot Ieetle gal nv
lInocs bedween, und try to shcare her pv
dclliug her uf some young man vich
surely would carry her off und marry her
-Tlypca clumsy DUtchman or -hmard
Yankee fellcr. Amt you 'shamcd.' 1
used TO say to her, to peen going to
shake your boor olt farler chOOst for
some young chackaHapeS ViCh StuitS your
ear NIT luffcTS taffy unit your mOut init
chcnuine candy till you dink yourselluf
so shvect all you got TO done is chOost to
meld in dot fcller's arms
". Papa Hilda used to say. If dot fell
Ter comes I will pounce him, sure
'Oh, nor 1 say; its der Olt farder
vOt will get der pOunce-uud dots all
rigid. Dots der same vot your muttcr
done py her Olt farder, Und 1 did not vos
mat at her
Vel, Won day am in der house und
/ I hear her SCream, und dere comes rush
ing in a Heighper man und SAYS A min
nit ago, Hilda vOs blaying der top uf
heap OF lumber. Und now der pile Of
/ lumber is on dop uf her. Crate Moses
/ l ChumPed der shdairs down, und vOs
chOOst IN dime TO see two men CARRYING
/ dot shild-limp uud lfeless-intO "a toy
/ -htore. Dem lait her on der couudcr
/ her head pv pOx uf dolls vich she vos
chOost sating her bcnnics to puy Won uf,
/ her feet on crate piG chumpiug chack
! vich she hat promised me l should for her
cousins Christmas buy
In s,lrcamed der becples-vorkng-
/ men, loafGr- laticS, und shildrCn-bress-
/ ing me der shild against.
- Hildai Hildar l screamed, Why
+ tOn'd y0u loolly Why ytOn'd you 5hpcak to
me? Aind you 'shamcd, shcaring your
bOOr Olt far3cr? But she never shtirred.
/ She yos White und shtiu. ChOOst apowd
/ dot dime comes brcssing in a fat woman
/ nit red baudage her hat arount-vOn uf
/ dem Salvation Army vimmon.
4 ucfrcr did haf some uses for dot Sal
/ walton Army.
Ish dot yoursY she sQuoaked. point
/ ing to Hilda, vich efTcrypoddy dought
vos dead, alretty.
She used to peen, I sayt; but she
/ ton'd seem TO pelong to anypoddy in bar
/ ticular chOost now
Il guess she vOs dead dot woman
/ squcakct, gwite goutcnted; veil, dots
/ pedder so-pcIIcr So
" Den Eos [ mailcr as a house aflre.
/ 'Pedter -oE I r-rcamcd. 'Pedder so YOU
/ got some oeccGcy from dot BipIe deach-
/ mgs vich you disgrace nit your nicker
minstrel religion. Peddpr so YOU got
! rlEhd away owG pCforc I drOw YOU der
/ yiEaor owd-buU no: YOU are dressed in
/ imiIation uf woman, uuJ I cannot
7 -dIike you.'
~ dell YOU vot, I aayt, 'bIease send
/ arount der theueral uf dot army uud halt
/ dozen tOiolcls uud Captains till ] knock
I into dem chOost lcetlc uf dot Gecrucv
. Und Christianity which der Salvation
/ Army sltaud5 SO much in uect uf'
Veil, Hilda didn't die-shc's rwitc q
I pig gal now. Uud as she goes to school
swinging her leedle skirts, I see her beep-
ing der sites uf her eyes out to get der
first glimbse uf dot young feller vich is
TO run init her away. - Julian Ralph in
I the Judge